Organic amendment effects on tuber yield, plant N uptake and soil mineral N under organic potato production

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-259

  Lynch, Derek H ^a   Zheng, Zhiming ^a   Zebarth, Bernie J ^b   Martin, Ralph C ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FREDERICTON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apparent N recovery; Organic amendments; Organic production; Plant available N; Potato; Soil mineral N

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORGANIC FARMING; POTATO; SOIL NUTRIENT; TUBER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA; PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND [CANADA];

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 49249091727     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742170508002330     Document Type: Article

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